Wilson’s philosophy seems to regard certainty and Aristotelian either/or thinking as a deceiving neuro-sensorial interpretation of the world. He likes to quote Alfred Korzybski’s “The map is not the territory”(and the word is not the thing…) He regards things on a scale of probabilities. He gives many insights into his ideas and people such as Joyce and the Pope, whom he reveres(well perhaps not the pope…) I find him funny and wise, and the tapes sounded great in the dark silence of my room before I went to bed. I liked his interview tapes better than the lecture tapes though, although the latter also teach you some good stuff and make you laugh. I’ve only read one of his books “Cosmic triggerII” which my mother could not stand for more than two pages when she grabbed it off of my shelf(she said it was “very badly written”). I think that when reading that book some people(like
my mom) read in the lines what they would expect to find only in between the lines under a “structured book”.The “subtext” Stanislavski spoke about. And they don’t like that. Too much chaos. For those who thrive on Dubya’s rhetoric “You are either with us or against us” Wilson may seem a little nutty, but watch out, he may be saner than you thought!
